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A slim but essential volume. . . . As such examples of mid-century design disappear or fall into disrepair, the utilitarian clarity of these images make a book like Some Los Angeles Apartments a valuable document, and an unexpectedly moving one. What began as a perhaps ironic concept has, with the passing years, taken on the resonance of something lost to history. -- Spectrum Culture

Concept preceding image is an approach which now dominates contemporary photography, but it wasn't always so. Victoria Heckert's book serves as a helpful history lesson. --Photo-Eye Blog An elaboration of Ruscha's 1965 book, providing a commentary on and superior reproductions of the original black and white photographs. --Form Magazine A slim but essential volume. . . . As such examples of mid-century design disappear or fall into disrepair, the utilitarian clarity of these images make a book like Some Los Angeles Apartments a valuable document, and an unexpectedly moving one. What began as a perhaps ironic concept has, with the passing years, taken on the resonance of something lost to history. --Spectrum Culture

A slim but essential volume. . . . As such examples of mid-century design disappear or fall into disrepair, the utilitarian clarity of these images make a book like Some Los Angeles Apartments a valuable document, and an unexpectedly moving one. What began as a perhaps ironic concept has, with the passing years, taken on the resonance of something lost to history. --Spectrum Culture An elaboration of Ruscha's 1965 book, providing a commentary on and superior reproductions of the original black and white photographs. --Form Magazine Concept preceding image is an approach which now dominates contemporary photography, but it wasn't always so. Victoria Heckert's book serves as a helpful history lesson. --Photo-Eye Blog -A slim but essential volume. . . . As such examples of mid-century design disappear or fall into disrepair, the utilitarian clarity of these images make a book like Some Los Angeles Apartments a valuable document, and an unexpectedly moving one. What began as a perhaps ironic concept has, with the passing years, taken on the resonance of something lost to history.---Spectrum Culture -An elaboration of Ruscha's 1965 book, providing a commentary on and superior reproductions of the original black and white photographs.---Form Magazine -Concept preceding image is an approach which now dominates contemporary photography, but it wasn't always so. Victoria Heckert's book serves as a helpful history lesson.---Photo-Eye Blog A slim but essential volume. . . . As such examples of mid-century design disappear or fall into disrepair, the utilitarian clarity of these images make a book like Some Los Angeles Apartments a valuable document, and an unexpectedly moving one. What began as a perhaps ironic concept has, with the passing years, taken on the resonance of something lost to history. Spectrum Culture An elaboration of Ruscha s 1965 book, providing a commentary on and superior reproductions of the original black and white photographs. Form Magazine Concept preceding image is an approach which now dominates contemporary photography, but it wasn t always so. Victoria Heckert s book serves as a helpful history lesson. Photo-Eye Blog

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Virginia Heckert is associate curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum and author of the bestselling Irving Penn: Small Trades.

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